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Prof. Dr. Koenraad Stroeken

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koen.stroeken@ugent.be

Department

Department of Languages and Cultures
Department of Art, Music and Theatre Sciences

Research group(s)

CARAM - Centre for Anthropological Research on Affect and Materiality

Research Focus

Interculturalism

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Projects

Projects as supervisor

Green science, technology and innovation from the south. An interdisciplinary, ethnographic study of organic pesticide production (pyrethrum) in Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania (2023 - 2027)
The musical instrument as a form of three-dimensional writing and score (2021 - 2024)
What is kiasili? An environmental anthropology of changing foodscapes in West Tanzania (2019 - 2024)
Governance, gender, entrepreneurship and ICT in Tanzania (Phase II: VLIRUOS-IUS MU) (2018 - 2022)
Hypermobile learning in an immobilized environment. Digital anthropology of ICT use in four Tanzanian universities (2016 - 2020)
Chokwe identity, gender and materiality (Caribu) (2016 - 2017)
Dagbon music and the Hiplife zone in Ghana (2016 - 2020)
Mfunzi. Applied digital anthropology (2015 - 2016)
CongoConnect. Objects as agents. A historical-anthropological study of the Hutereau collection in the Royal Museum for Central Africa Tervuren (2015 - 2019)
CongoConnect: Connections/Collections: power objects and institutions in Northeast Congo (1800-1960) (2015 - 2019)
Culture and communication strategies in HIV prevention in Mozambique (VLIRUOS-IUS UEM) (2015 - 2018)
The Hutereau expedition and chief Maloka. (Post)colonial layers of agency and exchange in NE Congo (2015 - 2019)
Evaluating ownership of development projects in Suriname (VLIRUOS-IUS AdKU) (2014 - 2018)
Udubsit. Applied digital anthropology (2014 - 2015)
The promises of the independence movement, ethnicity and voting in Tanzania (2013 - 2016)
Nodding syndrome in Northern Uganda. Conceptualizations of an illness-in-the-making (2012 - 2017)
Governance, entrepreneurship and ICT in Tanzania (2012 - 2018)
Developing Zone-it. A location-based app for community-building and research (2012 - 2013)
Response styles and the quality of survey data. Evidence from Guyana (2011 - 2014)
An anthropological study of traditional healing in Mozambique (2011 - 2017)
Social connectivity and HIV risk behavior. Mobile phones and sexuality in Yaoundé youth culture (2011 - 2014)
Cooking life. The vibrant entanglement of food and human beings in Sri Lanka (2009 - 2013)
Filafani in Folona. Moddertextiel en Sadogo-divinatie bij de Senufo van Folona, Mali (2009 - 2013)

Projects as co-supervisor

Urban landscapes of colonial/postcolonial health care in DR Congo (2015 - 2019)

Projects as researcher

Tracing Tensors. Infracultural analyses of simplicated worlds (2022 - 2026)
Charms. An anthropology of affect and materiality (2017 - 2022)
Medicinal rule. A historical anthropology of kingship in eastern and central Africa (2013 - 2017)

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